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'A handsome church, in the Grecian style of architecture, with a lofty octagonal spire, was erected in 1756, at the sole expense of H. Boyd, Esq.: the Stone for building it was procured from the quarries in the parish, which were then worked on that gentleman's estate.' Built as chapel-of-ease for Boyd family. Cost: £2769.4s.7½d. Attribution to CM proposed by O'Dwyer but questioned by Brett.
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S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 128; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'In search of Christopher Myers' in Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill, eds., Studies in the Gothic Revival (Dublin, 2008),71-72(illus.); C.E.B. Brett, Buildings of County Antrim (UAHS, 1996), 31(illus.); exterior also illus in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 228.
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